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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/113616962207681776">Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 20:29:08 JST</a><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer" title="jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/2767-48-20250205224340.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:</a><div><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113616920939235700" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>My advice, if you want to hear it, is simple. Focus on the positivity of being the majority that wants a fair and just society, based on the fundamental human rights and democracy. Don't fall into the trap of getting lost and demotivated by discussions on details, that are simply irrelevant in the bigger picture. Feel free to simply leave those pigeon chess [1] championships that exist around you. And don't get lost in bike shedding [2].</p><p>[1] <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pigeon_chess" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pigeon_chess</a><br>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4145661#notice-8103279">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-12-08T20:29:08+09:00" title="Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 20:29:08 JST">about 6 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113616962207681776" rel="external" title="Sent from social.wildeboer.net via ActivityPub">social.wildeboer.net</a></span></span><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113616962207681776">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: rationalwiki.org</div><h5><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pigeon_chess">Pigeon chess</a></h5><div></div></header><div>"Pigeon chess" or "like playing chess with a pigeon"[note 1] is a figure of speech originating from a comment made in March 2005 on Amazon by Scott D. Weitzenhoffer regarding Eugenie Scott's book Evolution vs. Creationism: An introduction:</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality">Law of triviality</a></h5><div></div></header><div>The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bicycle shed, while neglecting the proposed design of the plant itself, which is far more important and a far more difficult and complex task.
The law has been applied to software development and other activities. The terms bicycle-shed effect, bike-shed effect, and bike-shedding were coined based on Parkinson's example; it was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by the Danish software developer Poul-Henning Kamp in 1999 and, due to that, has since become popular within the field of software development generally.ArgumentThe concept was first presented as a corollary of his broader "Parkinson's law" spoof of management. He dramatizes this...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 20:29:08 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
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My advice, if you want to hear it, is simple. Focus on the positivity of being the majority that wants a fair and just society, based on the fundamental human rights and democracy. Don't fall into the trap of getting lost and demotivated by discussions on details, that are simply irrelevant in the bigger picture. Feel free to simply leave those pigeon chess [1] championships that exist around you. And don't get lost in bike shedding [2].
[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pigeon_chess
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
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  Pigeon chess
  "Pigeon chess" or "like playing chess with a pigeon"[note 1] is a figure of speech originating from a comment made in March 2005 on Amazon by Scott D. Weitzenhoffer regarding Eugenie Scott's book Evolution vs. Creationism: An introduction:
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  Law of triviality
  The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bicycle shed, while neglecting the proposed design of the plant itself, which is far more important and a far more difficult and complex task. The law has been applied to software development and other activities. The terms bicycle-shed effect, bike-shed effect, and bike-shedding were coined based on Parkinson's example; it was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by the Danish software developer Poul-Henning Kamp in 1999 and, due to that, has since become popular within the field of software development generally. Argument The concept was first presented as a corollary of his broader "Parkinson's law" spoof of management. He dramatizes this...

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